Weird that they're doing "Kid Flash" when the actual Flash is barely able to legally rent a car. I also think Wally on the series is around the same age Wally in the comics was when he became the actual Flash.

Would have actually made more sense to me if this Kid Flash was the sidekick to a legitimately mature Flash (JWS's Jay Garrick).

I don't know why they didn't make Wally about 14-years-old in the series. That would have solved the problem with the name "Kid Flash." Even if the character is 18, and still technically a "teen," it's only a couple of seasons before he is no longer even that. Still, there was a 30-year-old actor playing a college-aged Superboy, so...

@Bob Simko: Kid Flash's costume is indeed superb, and Gil Kane did some incredible work as well.

Other non-Kane costumes I personally liked included the Flash (Barry, of course), Adam Strange, Hawkman (even though most of that groundwork had already been laid), and Saturn Girl, Ultra Boy, and Sun Boy.

I don't know why the costume material has to be so defined, though; I find it kind of distracting. In answer to a once asked question - yes, I am expecting yellow spandex.

Also, the only way I think calling an 18 year old Kid Flash is if he's been called Kid Flash since he was 12. I'm 55, and I don't think of 17 or 18 year olds as kids.

Then again, The Blur and The Whizzer have already been done, and Quicksilver is already being used right now. So...

Have they said exact ages or are you positing? I don't ever remember Barry giving his age as 27 and Wally looks older than 18 to me.

First season Barry was 25. This was based on what was said in the show. He was 11 when his mother died and, at that point when the show started, his father had spent 14 years in jail. So beginning on this season he'll be 28 or nearly 28.

Wally was shown to be just out of high school when he was first introduced and beginning his first year of college. So unless he was held back, he's 18. (Probably turning 19 soon-ish on the show.)